Posts Tagged Suzanne Vega

Welcome to episode 129 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I talk with one of my all-time musical heroes, Suzanne Vega. We are in a hotel restaurant and there is some background noise. Just a warning. What a thrill to meet her and speak with her. I flew […]

Suzanne Vega Opera House, Wellington Wednesday, August 8 For her New Zealand shows it was just Suzanne Vega and long-serving bassist Mike Visceglia. I say just because it was the full band that performed in Australia, at wonderful shows celebrating the respective 30th and 25th anniversaries of the Solitude Standing and 99.9F Degrees albums.

Suzanne Vega Enmore Theatre, Newtown; Sydney, Australia Saturday, July 28 Suzanne Vega is celebrating the 30th and 25th anniversaries of, respectively, the albums Solitude Standing and 99.9Fd. Or as she explained cleverly at the start of the show, selections from the albums. No fear of a trick though, that meant most of each album – […]

Anyone reading this will know I’m such a huge Suzanne Vega fan. So it’s huge news – to me anyway – that she is going to be playing two shows in New Zealand in August this year. I’ve already booked tickets to see her play in Australia in late-July. I’ll return home with the chance […]

Laura Marling Semper Femina Sony Music Canada Inc. Laura Marling’s output is extraordinary – 27 years old, six albums to date, all of them great. Each one building on the one before it. No mistakes. No duds. And though the first three sit in a straight line (and that’s not a criticism) from there her […]

I’ve been listening to Suzanne Vega since I was ten years old. The songs that everyone knows are Luka and Tom’s Diner. These songs have held up well – Luka might suffer from a very-1987 guitar sound but it’s an incredible piece of pop songwriting. A song about child abuse is one thing – a […]

Tonight I’m playing a bunch of records down at the San Fran – all female artists, mostly a 1980s set I reckon, but I have a few things that spill out either side, so we’ll see where the night goes… So in honour of that – and the amazing PJ Harvey show earlier this week […]

Suzanne Vega Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers Perpetual Sounds There’s something calming, soothing, reassuring about Suzanne Vega’s voice. That’s been the constant in a career of solid-to-brilliant albums where she’s diversified hugely from that initial “folk-revival” template. From the icy electric guitar treatments on her first album through the 80s-beatnik phase, […]

cars hiss by my window after 3 am Suzanne Vega again has the special stereo privileges and I’ve scored soul listening rights and it’s on these long, late, lonely nights with my empty coffee cup blues and eternal thoughts of what never was that I realize I’m lucky to push out anything that might resemble […]

Mel Parsons Drylands M. Parsons Mel Parsons has always had the right approach and enough of the right sound. Tour, tour, tour, write, write, write – lovely voice and these soft, malleable song-shapes. All correct, present, accounted for – but there are so many people vying for that space, New Zealand seems/seemed to be running […]

Ruby Froom Snow (ep) (Independent/Bandcamp) Snow is a four-track EP by Ruby Froom – she’s the daughter of Mitchell Froom and Suzanne Vega. There’s just the slightest hint of the sort of musical phrase her mother might use on the opening Brilliance, but the song takes on the feel of a calmer, more (nicely) subdued […]

Suzanne Vega Tales From The Realm of The Queen of Pentacles Cooking Vinyl Suzanne Vega returns with the first new album of original material in seven years and instantly it’s a warm reminder of that voice, like an old Hollywood idea of grace and beauty, aging naturally, and, infinitesimally – you have to check the […]